Welcome

I am an Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. My research agenda focuses on the political lives of children and youth in North and South America. More specifically, I write about youth activism and the ways that girls, children, and youth participate in social movements. I am the author of two books.

Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas (2011) introduces readers to a diverse and vibrant transnational community of teenage girl activists in the San Francisco Bay Area, Mexico City, Caracas, Buenos Aires, and Vancouver. It explores how teenage girls construct activist identities, rejecting and redefining girlhood and claiming political authority for youth in the process.